JEP 238: Multi-Version JAR Files

[Alan Bateman]

On 25/02/2015 18:03, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2015, at 6:45 PM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org> wrote:
>
>> On 25 February 2015 at 13:30, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> Even in the modular world i will expect class scanning will be used. While we can now iterate reliably over classes in the image i don't believe that functionality is made available for classes in modules on the module path.
>> To be honest, being able to reliably iterate over classes in a module
>> is the most interesting potential feature about modules in general.
> Really? I would have thought that the most interesting aspects would be formalizing names and dependencies so they can be computed on.
>
Right, plus encapsulation too. I've no doubt that there will be APIs 
(both new and updates to existing) to introspect the contents of modules 
but I wouldn't consider this one of the primary goals or benefits of 
modules, rather it's just something that has to happen anyway as part of 
bringing modules to the platform.

-Alan